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He does, as does Lewandowski for Poland. They also play a lot of games v inferior opposition. Both strikers get a lot of criticism from the media at times. Lewandowski is criticised for his performances at major tournaments and as for Haaland...

He scored 1 in 3 for Sunderland and scored more open play goals and in as many games as Wright did last season. He definitely has what it takes.

Robins actually managed Bassette best imo. My bad, I keep forgetting his injury! I’m glad the stats corroborate what I seem to be seeing. The central issue this season is that our strikers are not getting touches in the box. Of course a striker is going to struggle if they’re not getting...

You had leaders in that team. Hamer and Vik were the stars but of equal importance, was Kelly and McFadz. You can see just how influential McFadz and Kelly (in particular) are on the team and organising everyone in game. This squad just lacks that calming influence under pressure and when Sheaf...

Robins is no longer here, but a comment he made in one post-match interview was that the players were ‘taking the easy way out’ and not being bold in our passing really resonated with me. To me, it’s one of those things that, once you’ve seen it, you can’t unsee it. It also sums up our season...

I agree he needs to do more. The frustrating thing for him must be that he started those opening 5-6 games and wasn’t great and was dropped and hasn’t had a consecutive start since. He had some good games v Watford, Luton and NYD v Cardiff and was dropped each time. Comparing it to Haji, he...

Forget Istanbul in 2005, Rob Holding’s hairline is the best comeback in football…

People made this same argument about Lati/Binks starting ahead of Kitching… Then Lampard was impressed with him and he will probably start the next league game. You could’ve applied that logic to Collins over Dovin and eventually, we look at lot better with Dovin in goal. As for Norwich...

He excels at finishing chances and his goals for us show that. Vik is a unicorn player for us and it wasn’t just him. Hamer’s passing was perfect for him and we just don’t have that in this team. Vik wouldn’t have done as well on 22/23 without Hamer in the team.

Simms needs a run in the team similar to the one Bassette has had since Robins has been sacked. If he has 8-10 games and he doesn’t score, then we’d need to go back to the drawing board. Which would be a disaster and sends all the wrong messages out to the fanbase. The team losing MVE, Sheaf...

He’s just a number 9. Won’t do much outside of the box but inside the box is a different player. That’s dependent on getting chances to your striker though which we’ve not done well this season. My personal view that a front 3 of Haji-Simms-EMC could paper over the cracks of our midfield woes...

Really? The performance was identical to our playoff clash in Feb 2024. We actually had a best team out that too (bar Sheaf). Strangely, the narrative is that we ‘battered’ Norwich last year - no we didn’t!

On a serious note, how can we get the most out of him if he’s not started in consecutive games since September? It was the same story last season. Until Robins clued up that to get the most out of Simms, he just needed to double down on starting him week in and week out. His movement in the...

Yet, we should’ve went 2-0 up… I completely disagree that it was shameful. In fact, it was an archetypal away performance that has done us over a few times this season. They had 5 big chances and 3 of those were in the one goal mouth scramble caused by Allen’s mishap. We mostly defended well...

It’s a new regime pal. Lampard will have his own ideas and seems to view him as a striker. Again, EMC wasn’t in form the last time Haji played. Lampard will start both of them, so unless EMC is playing RW, Haji isn’t playing LW.

What about that isn’t true? Made most his career appearances and goals at ST. As for our team now, EMC and Wright are our two best attacking players and they both can’t play LW. So either one of them plays RW or Wright plays as a striker.

Haji Wright is a striker and he’s scored most of his goals this season playing as a striker. If we had a fully fit squad available tomorrow, he’d be playing striker.

There’s only one ‘Scandinavian Guy’…

I could plausibly believe that that the £2.5m for Bassette could eat into that budget but not both. We got a small fee for Godden and always needed a 3rd striker that must’ve been budgeted for. I’m not sure why Robins would have sanctioned signing another striker if it came out of ring-fenced...

We were going to sign a midfielder for £4 or 5m… where’s that money gone? I think some minor details may be getting lost in translation. To use one example, say FL wants to sign a CB, King would probably be within his rights to agree but on the condition we sold one of the 4 CBs we have e.g...